The Niagara Thunderhawks Jr. B Lacrosse Club played 3 Home games in a row the past week. Thursday April 30th saw the team drop a close 7-6 game to the Welland Warlords. Corey Fowler led all scorers with 2 goals and 2 assists. Jake McCready added 2 goals with singles going to Mike Brandwood and Marcus Lagerstrom. Brenden Johnston, Bryson Filipetti each collected 2 assists. Julian Fauzey was strong in the nets. The T-Hawks came away with their first win of the season on Saturday night defeating Sarnia 8-7. By the midpoint of the game Niagara was up 5-1. The Rookies came to play as all 5 goals were tallied by them. Max Antone had his first 2 goals of the season with Brenden Johnston adding his first goal and Tom Owen and Jake McCready adding singles. Sarnia bounced back and scored the next 5 goals going up 6-5 seven minutes into the 3rd period. The teams traded goals with Niagara tying the game 7-7 with 3 minutes left in the game. Brandwood and McCready each scored. With 42 seconds left in the game T-Hawks defender Marcus Lagerstrom took it down the floor and scored the winning goal on a breakaway. Spencer Allen had 3 assists for the Thunderhawks with Brandwood and Filipetti adding 2 assists each. On Sunday, the tired T-Hawks dropped a 9-5 decision to Hamilton. With the game tied 2-2 after one period the Hamilton team out scored the Niagara club 6-1 to go ahead 8-3 at the end of two periods. The team played a strong third period, winning the period 2-1. Fowler again led the team with a goal and 2 assists. Geahnew Printup added a goal and an assist, with Rookie Brendon Labrash scoring his first goal of the season and Max Antone tallying his third of the season. GM Al Janzen was pleased with the outcome of the weekend. “We have to realize that we are in a rebuilding year. A majority of our team is made up of 17 & 18 year olds. Take that second period of the Hamilton game out of the equation and we played eight quality periods of ball.” The team stays at Home for the next 2 games; with a rematch against Welland Thursday May 7th (7:30pm) and the Sponsor Appreciation game Saturday May 9th against Guelph (7:00pm). All games played at the MCU; Jake and John’s (J & J) Barbecue before every game.